Violence in the Hill Country : The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era / Nicholas Keefauver Roland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roland, Nicholas Keefauver, author.

Series:

Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ; no. 23.

Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ; number twenty-three

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Texas--Texas Hill Country--History--19th century.

Violence.

Secession--Texas--Texas Hill Country--History.

Secession.

Indians of North America--Wars--Texas--Texas Hill Country.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--Wars--Texas--Texas Hill Country.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Texas--Texas Hill Country.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Wars--Texas--Texas Hill Country.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the eve of the Civil War

Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum politics and the secession crisis

Chapter Three. From secession to the Nueces River

Chapter Four. Indians, inflation, and bushwhackers

Chapter Five. Civil War and political violence

Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the incorporation of the Texas frontier

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. Indian raiding deaths during the Civil War

Appendix B. Casualties of Civil War violence, 1862-1865

Appendix C. Indian raiding deaths after the Civil War

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477321775

1477321772

9781477321768

1477321764

OCLC:

1382694472